raise cane en · VERB
Meanings
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Eggcorn of raise Cain.
“I wasn’t there, but my mother told me that he raised so much cane that they had to call security.”
2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 202:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, cane: for example, grow sugarcane.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| raising cane | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| raises cane | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| raised cane | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| raised cane | Tense=Past | lexicographic |